Douglas Kriner

Associate Professor of Political Science (CAS)

Teaches KHC PO 101: America in the Age of Terrorism

Douglas Kriner is an associate professor of political science and the director of Undergraduate Studies. His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policymaking. Professor Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and received his PhD in government from Harvard University in 2006. His first book (with Francis Shen), The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking, documents the emergence, beginning in the Korean War, of socioeconomic inequalities in who bears the human costs of war. It then traces the ramifications of these inequalities for politics and policymaking. His second book, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, investigates the mechanisms through which Congress shapes the initiation, conduct, and duration of major American military actions, even when it fails to write its policy preferences into law. Professor Kriner’s work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science, among other. His teaching interests include courses on the presidency, Congress, domestic politics and the use of force, separation of powers, and quantitative methods.

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